“The world will be made whole”: Love, Loss, and the Sacramental Imagination in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping
In this article I suggest that attending to the water imagery in Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping can reveal a sophisticated account of the sacraments, one that anticipates by several years important developments in recent Christian theology. I also argue that the novel seems thus to suggest...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2017]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 3, Pages: 482-499 |
RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture NBP Sacramentology; sacraments TK Recent history |
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Theology
B Williams, Rowan, 1950- B Imagination B Love B Marilynne Robinson B ROBINSON, Marilynne, 1943- B SACRAMENTS in literature B HOUSEKEEPING (Book) B Rowan Williams B Sacrament |
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